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Weeks after the resignation of Harvard President Claudine Gay over a plagiarism scandal, the university's chief diversity and inclusion officer, Sherri Ann Charleston, has been accused of doing the same.

Sherri Ann Charleston (photo via the Washington Free Beacon)

According to a Monday complaint filed with the university, as well as an analysis by the Washington Free Beacon's Aaron Sibarium, large portions of Charleston's work very clearly appears to have been lifted from others without so much as quotation marks. She even took credit for her own husband's work, according to the report.

As Sibarium notes on X:

"The 2014 paper appears to be entirely counterfeit," said Peter Wood, the head of the National Association of Scholars and a former associate provost at Boston University.

"This is research fraud pure and simple."

Prior to joining Harvard in August 2020, Charleston was the chief affirmative action officer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After joining Harvard, she served on the staff advisory committee which helped choose Claudine Gay as president in December 2022, the Harvard Crimson reports. Charleston taught gender studies courses at the University of Wisconsin, while her bio describes her as "one of the nation's leading experts in diversity" whose work involves "translating diversity and inclusion research into practice for students, staff, researchers, postdoctoral fellows and faculty of color."

It apparently also includes copious use of 'ctrl-c' and 'ctrl-v.'

"Sherri Charleston appears to have used somebody else's research without proper attribution," said former Villanova University political theory professor, Steve McGuire, who reviewed two of Charleston's papers, the Beacon reports.

Read the rest of Sibarium's extensive reporting here…